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Dear PT, 

At our company, when a Case or Opportunity is created, the parent Account is not always known or identified at that time. This creates a significant amount of work later, trying to manually identify if there is an Account and what it might be. Also, we think it would be useful to have a top-down look at these relationships, viewing the parent Account and seeing a list of its child Accounts and their related objects. How could we accomplish this?

Gren P. Reant from Childwold, NY

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Dear PT, 

At our company, we use the phase-gate development process to create our products, from releasing new most viable products (MVPs) to updating later versions. It is a lightning fast process, so it is important we improve our project management abilities. We’d like to use Salesforce®, but it has limited project management functionality. Any suggestions?

Emma Veepea from Waterfall, PA

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Dear PT, 

At our company, we are having trouble seeing the number of open Projects with an Account or Opportunity. Can you help? Salesforce’s native rollup summary fields can’t be used with certain formulas, specifically formula fields with date functions. Hence, we can’t create the list of open projects as of today (or any other date).

Asov Toodae from Worksop, UK

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Wow. Did you know that one in six IT projects have a cost overrun of 200%? Since project management touches almost every aspect of how organizations achieve their goals, it can have a big impact on costs.

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Just because you have access to tons of data, doesn’t always mean it’s being put to good use. Poor quality data can lead to significant losses.

This issue features stories on how you can do more with Passage Technology’s Apps and Salesforce.

Back in 2008, Jerry Reid and Brent Gossett couldn’t possibly imagine their app would eventually be the 10 millionth install on the Salesforce AppExchange. They were just trying to provide a solution for a client’s use of Salesforce.

Rollup Helper would later become one of the AppExchange’s most popular apps, installed into more than 60,000 orgs and counting. So when they recently learned their app was the 10 millionth install, it was totally unexpected, but not completely surprising given its universal popularity. (Check out our 10 Million Celebration Page)

It’s important to do a Salesforce Health Check periodically, so you can maximize the efficiency of your org and get valuable insights.